Iron Fists: Branding the 20th Century Totalitarian State

About this book

This provocative survey reveals how four of the most destructive dictatorships of the 20th century - Nazi Germany Fascist Italy Soviet Russia and Communist China - used graphic design to sell their messages. Explores each regimes distinctive strategies for seducing public opinion and infiltrating peoples lives in media ranging from logos flags typefaces and posters to childrens books and figurines Remarkable archival photographs set the disturbingly powerful graphic devices in historical context. The perceptive text analyses how these four regimes established the most effective modes of visual propaganda which were later adopted and adapted by many other dictatorships.